slightly off topic maybe but wasn’t the FAA considering doing away with “memory items” since they so often aren’t remembered properly and lead to more issues??
At my current gig we have to recite them WORD FOR WORD just like the military has with “bold face items” (at my previous gig no one knew a memory item to save their ass) .. all of that is nice but being able to actually DO the items is much more crucial than reciting them!!
Great White was like that. When I started, they had a very, very few memorized limitations and zero memorized checklist items. About six months in they got rid of what little they had.
Their overall philosophy was "We make you use a checklist for stuff you do multiple times a day, but we're going to make you memorize stuff you do once every six or 12 months? Nah".
So they had an immediate action card on the glare shield that had what would be "memory items". You snatched it off the glare shield and one side was stuff like engine out or rapid depress, and they had all of the fire/smoke related stuff on the other side (which was red bordered for easy ID). Best part is it also had the page number in their version of the QRH, so you could jump right there.
Basically, their mantra, and it was printed at the top of the card was:
FLY THE AIRCRAFT
Cancel the warning
Identify the problem
Run the checklist
DO NOT HURRY
By and large, they didn't like technique, and they didn't like people doing other people's jobs, because it was too easy to miss something or make the assumption that "the other pilot did it". They most especially didn't like IPs teaching technique, and if they caught you doing that, it was bad.
Everyone stayed in their lane, and you could make the assumption that the other guy was doing what he was supposed to be doing, and for the most part, it ran like clockwork.
Generally, it was the only philosophy I ran into where the first time I saw it I said "huh, that makes sense."
